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M. P. BRAY. Corset.

No. 229,801. Patented July 13, I880.

PLPFIERS, FKOTO-LITNOGRAFHER, WASHING ON. n 04 parts of the corset, as hereinat UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 229,801, dated July 13, 1880. Application filed October 23. 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoR-RIs P. BRAY, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, an outside view of the two rear edges of the corset; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of corsets, the object being to dispense with the metal eyelets generally inserted into the back, and which cause considerable annoyance to the wearer, from the fact that the unavoidable oxidation of the metal stains the fabric and lacings, and also that the eyelets are frequently pulled out, leaving the raw edge of 'the perforation to take the strain of the lacing, and which soon wears or tears away, injuring and often rendering the corset useless. y

The invention whereby I overcome these difiiculties consists in the construction of the 'ter described, claim.

A, with strong warpdistance leave short and particularly recited in the I first Weave a strip, thread, and at proper slits a, the filling-threads interlaced with the warps, so as to leave a finished edge or selvage at each side of the slits, as seen in Fig. 3 5 2, but running entirely across between the slits. Thus the slits become strong, and will not tear from any reasonable strain. The strips thus prepared are introduced at the edge of the rear edges of the corset, as seen in Fig. 40 1, preferably between bone or stay pockets B C, and so as to bring the slits a into substantially the same relative position as the usual eyelets. These slits-are equal to the strain usually put upon the eyelets, will not soil either 4 5 the corset or lacing, will not wear the lacing, and, in fact, avoid all the objections or (lifticnlties arising from eyelets, and without introducing new difficulties.

The construction is cheaperin that the strip 0 costs little, if any, more than the usual construction of the eyelet-strip, hence saving in the cost of eyelets and labor of inserting them.

I claim- The herein-described improvement in corsets, consisting of the lacing-strip A with slits a, produced in Weaving, the filling-threads returned at the slits, so as to produce a selvage at each side said slits, but extending from edge'to edgebetween said slits,and said strips 60 introduced at or near the rear edges of the corset, as and for the purpose specified.

MORRIS P. BRAY.

Witnesses:

J 0s. 0. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

